On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 13:22, you wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 12:58, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> > Nonsense. I run SuSE server(s), the update mechanism is excellent and
> > free. rpm hell? You must have misunderstood something. It never
> > happened to me. On my desktop, I can tick "automatic", and each time I
> > log in (or I click a little con in the panel), it checks for updates,
>
> The server-relevant point here is that this update process must be
> completely automatic - i.e. not waiting for a user to log on to a
> graphical desktop.
You must be overflowing with trust in your Linux distributor.
I think I'd prefer to stay in control of the exercise.

None the less, a Gentoo install would allow you to have the command:-
emerge --update world
in a cron job.

[ ... good advice about not having an X-Server on a server machine ... ]

-- 
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell

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